Lower Manhattan

Bomb My book was on the race to build and steal the atomic bomb. The atomic bomb was being created in the U.S and they took some of the smartest people to try to help build it because they were trying to split atoms. It played probably the biggest role in world war 2 because if they had not gotten the 2 bombs made in time the Japanese could have ended up winning the war but instead they got it finished and they dropped them on japan. Maybe the person who played the biggest part in the building…

Throughout the course of this debate you have heard many statements suggesting that the drop of the bomb was unprecedented and inhumane. Largely, it has been suggested that there were better, alternate way of defeating Japan without the use of Little Boy and Fat Man. Suggestions of such include allowing Japan to keep their emperor, waiting for Russia to invade and take over, or defeating Japan through a land invasion. First and Foremost, Why not keep let Japan keep their emperor? It was clear…

Dropping the Bombs “We would have kept on fighting until all Japanese were killed, but we would not have been defeated”. This quotes, analyzed by theatlantic.com comes from a high ranking Japanese Army officer while being interrogated about what how he thought the war would have ended if the bombs had not been dropped. The Japanese Fanatical leaders were willing to have their entire population fight to the end then surrender their homeland. If Truman had not dropped the bombs on Japan the…

History on the Rocky Mountain Arsenal. This facility was established after the attack on Pearl Harbor to manufacture chemical weapons in support of World War II. After the war ended there was not a need to continue to use this plant to develop chemical weapons and the property was leased out to civilian companies for different uses. Later the area was turned over to the U.S. Army, Shell Oil Company, and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to start cleanup of the base. Rocky Mountain Arsenal was later…

Germany, when he came to the U.S. he contacted President Roosevelt and informed him that the German scientist were developing a new atomic weapon. With Einstein’s persuading President Roosevelt gave the order to start a secret new program called the Manhattan Project with was the development of the Atomic Bomb. The atomic bomb was tested in New Mexico in July 1945 and was a success. President Truman who succeeded President Roosevelt after he dies in office from a stroke, was the one that was…

Ethan Friedrichsen Period 2 Due 11/14/17 WWII Essay The Atomic Bomb: A Weapon of Mass Destruction Imagine you are a Japanese citizen enjoying your day at work, and suddenly, you hear this booming sound that destroys your ears and leaves them ringing. Seconds later, you are wiped from the face of the Earth. This is what was experienced by the people of Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945, and the people of Nagasaki on August 9th, 1945. WWII is almost over. Germany has surrendered, but Japan is…

On April 22, 1904, the cries of a newborn J. Robert Oppenheimer were heard. He was born into a wealthy New York family. His father, Julius Oppenheimer was an immigrant from Germany in his family’s textile importing business while his mother; Ella Friedman was a painter in New York where her ancestry had been there for generations. Later on, he would receive a little brother named Frank, who would be also be a future physicist. At a young age, he was a sheltered child who was instilled morals,…

1. Given the destructiveness of the atomic bomb, what motivations did the scientists and soldiers have for celebrating the successful test? Although the destructiveness of the atomic bomb, the scientists and soldiers found their motivations for celebrating the successful test in the sense that this first explosion of an atomic weapon was for them “a justification of the several years of intensive effort of tens of thousands of people—statesmen, scientists, subatomic universe…” For “no man-made…

Historical Use of Anthrax The first anthrax bomb of the West was dropped onto Gruinard Island in 1942. The test was conducted by a British team while American officials observed (Mangold & Goldberg, 2000). The test provided disturbing results about how badly an anthrax weapon could contaminate a targeted area. It took half a century to finally clean up the anthrax contamination but the tests proved that anthrax could be produced, weaponized and transported quite a distance to inflict damage to a…

Considering the immediate and long- lasting effects of the Atomic Bomb, President Truman and the United States were justified in using the nuclear weapon to force the Japanese to surrender. To illustrate, the USA was justified for using the atomic bomb starting from the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, in which the US fleet were nearly wiped out. Moreover, 1700 people were wounded, 21 ships and 8 battleships were destroyed. Due to the attack from Japan, the USA was no longer an…